Temporary assistance for needy families : work requirements revisited / Theodore Brockman, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brockman, Theodore, editor.

Series:

Social issues, justice and status series.

Social issues, justice and status

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program).

Welfare recipients--Government policy--United States.

Welfare recipients--Employment--United States.

Family services--United States.

Child welfare--United States.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare administration--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science, [2013]

Summary:

One of the central features of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is promoting work and job preparation for parents (mostly single mothers) in families that receive cash assistance. TANF was created in the 1996 welfare law, which was the culmination of a decades-long evolution from providing single mothers "pensions" to permit them to stay home and raise children to a program focused on work. State TANF programs were influenced by research conducted during a period of much experimentation on welfare-to-work initiatives in the 1980s and early 1990s, which found that mandatory work requirements could reduce welfare receipt and increase employment among single mothers. This book examines the TANF program with a focus on welfare waivers, and new research on welfare dependency and welfare-to-work efforts.

Contents:

Temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) : welfare-to-work revisited

Temporary assistance for needy families : welfare waivers

The temporary assistance for needy families block grant : an introduction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62618-140-3